modes of production obsolete. Firms that hope to compete in the world market have no choice but to adopt it and learn to use it to their greatest advantage.

A 1988 Department of Defense report2 found serious, if irregular, indications of decline in sectors of the industrial base that are critical to continued U.S. leadership in advanced technologies and, by extension, to national security. The report finds particularly devastating the erosion of production technologies and equipment in vitally important sectors such as machine tools and electronics manufacturing equipment (see Table 1-3 and Table 1-4). Noting

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